Hollywood Quotes - Page 17

• I would love to act. I probably won't make it to Hollywood at 42 years of age, but I'd love to act.

  Richard Hammond

  Years, Age

  "Richard Hammond: I'm having a mid-life crisis in reverse". www.mirror.co.uk. December 22, 2011.

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• I always took it for granted that there would be life after Hollywood.

  Esther Williams

  Would Be, Granted

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• Mr. Reagan spent World War II, the global conflict fought and won by his generation, making training films in Hollywood.

  R. W. Apple

  War, Glowing, Training

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• Hollywood was born schizophrenic. For 75 years it has been both a town and a state of mind, an industry and an art form.

  Richard Corliss

  Art, Years, Mind

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What audiences end up with word-wise is a hackneyed, completely derivative copy of old Hollywood romances, a movie that reeks of phoniness and lacks even minimal originality.

  Kenneth Turan

  Wise, Romance, Derivatives

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• Silence is the sure sign that youre on your way out in Hollywood.

  Budd Schulberg

  Silence, Way, Silence Is

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• For us, as actors, and even for the director, it gave us a sense of authenticity to what we were doing because we were talking about Hollywood and we were in Hollywood.

  Berenice Bejo

  Talking, Directors, Actors

  "Jean Dujardin and Berenice Bejo THE ARTIST Interview". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 23, 2011.

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• Some people in Hollywood think of me as a model for dramatic midlife transitions: suburban housewife to Emmy-winning actress. But I never plotted out a master plan for following my dreams.

  Kathryn Joosten

  Dream, Winning, Thinking

  "Kathryn Joosten obituary" by Michael Carlson, www.theguardian.com. June 14, 2012.

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• Acting was just outside of the realm of possibility for me. I grew up in L.A. and around Hollywood but I literally never, honestly, considered it.

  Cody Horn

  Acting, Possibility, Grew Up

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• Eventually I got asked to be in a Michael J. Fox sitcom called High School U.S.A. I didn’t think it was funny and said no. They doubled the money, and that kind of offended me. I realized, oh, that’s right, my opinion means nothing in Hollywood. I’d seen other people compromise, and I felt that once you gave up on what you wanted to do, you couldn’t go back. It was selling out. So I decided to go back to Minneapolis.

  Joel Hodgson

  School, Mean, Thinking

  "'Mystery Science Theater 3000': the Definitive Oral History of a Tv Masterpiece". Interview with Brian Raftery, www.wired.com. April 22, 14.

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• For a long time I was embarrassed to say I was a 'B' movie actor, ... But now that I see what Hollywood's putting out, I realized 'B' actually means 'better.'

  Bruce Campbell

  Mean, Long, Actors

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• It's so easy and comfortable to lie to yourself. Success is to become who you are. I think Hollywood thinks in a totally different way. But I think that as a human being, and not only an actress, that's really how you lead a successful life.

  Audrey Tautou

  Lying, Successful, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I worked for a publishing company in Hollywood.

  Mac Davis

  Company, Publishing

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• Hollywood is yesterday, forever catching up tomorrow with what's happening today.

  Vito Russo

  Yesterday, Forever, Today

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• Just like those other black holes from outer space, Hollywood is postmodern to this extent: it has no center, only a spreading dead zone of exhaustion, inertia, and brilliant decay.

  Arthur Kroker

  Space, Black, Decay

  Arthur Kroker, Marilouise Kroker, David Cook (1989). “Panic Encyclopedia: The Definitive Guide to the Postmodern Scene”

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• There's going to be a new gem in Hollywood, it's called Agron

  Mark Polish

  Gems

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• Hollywood is a land of self-invention.

  Brian Koppelman

  Self, Land, Invention

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• Unfortunately my career began in Hollywood, doing a negative pickup for Universal pictures.

  Alex Cox

  Careers, Negative, Universal

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• Well, it's a lot less dangerous - working with snakes and mountaibn lions and dangerous animals - than working in Hollywood [laughs]. Hollwood will kill you.

  Bernie Krause

  Animal, Snakes, Laughing

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• There is this idea in Hollywood, and I've seen it work for people, where the unspoken rule is 'Do two for them and one for yourself.' And that's kind of considered a fact. I've never really found that to be true for me. I've gotten more opportunities out of working on things I believed in than I ever did on things that weren't special to me.

  Ryan Gosling

  Opportunity, Ideas, Two

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Hollywood has a way of sucking the world's talent to it.

  Richard Linklater

  World, Way, Talent

  ""You can't hold back the human spirit"". Interview with David Walsh, www.wsws.org. March 27, 1998.

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• I've never been a guy who had more than a toe in Hollywood anyway, so my toe is more easily lopped off than most.

  Richard Linklater

  Guy, Toes

  Interview with Michael Koresky, Jeff Reichert, reverseshot.org. July 2, 2004.

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• If Hollywood hadn't existed, Elinor Glyn would have had to invent it.

  Anita Loos

  Ifs

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• I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.

  Eddie Bracken

  Awful, Trouble

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• I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology.

  Gavin Bryars

  Technology, Europe, Cds

  Klassiknet Interview, www.culturekiosque.com.

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